2017 Puligny Montrachet La Garenne

Pale yellow with green highlights. Passion fruit on the nose. At once sweeter and less taut in the early going than usual for this cuvée , conveying a generous texture but an impression of lower acidity than the village offering. I don't find this wine's normal tension or cut--not to mention personality. The village wine is better in its context, and maybe longer as well. Still, Boillot made just three barrels of this wine, vs. a normal four, as he had mostly small grapes in 2017, without a lot of juice in them.